So this week was a busy one especially in the top ten which is absolute chaos so let's get through all of that nonsense beginning with one of the few calm things this week.. "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" by The Proclaimers spending another week at number one and right now its sitting pretty comfortable.
Although moving up three places to number two is "Tucker's Daughter" by Ian Moss! Now I was not expecting this but it's got some nice sales traction with it, it dragged "You Got It" by Roy Orbison up one spot to number three. I am pretty happy about that.
It pushed "Teardrops" by Womack & Womack back two places to number four and likewise for "Kokomo" by The Beach Boys back to number five.
Staying where it is like the boring piece of annoyance it is is "Orinoco Flow" by Enya at number six.
Now here's where the chaos hits because rising from 21 to number seven is "She Drives Me Crazy" by Fune Young Cannibals, I expected this to be a hit but I didn't expect it to move up this quick. Might need to keep an eye on it as a player for the top spot soon.
Then there's the sudden and pretty surprising two place resurgence for "Rock and Roll Music" by Mental As Anything up two to number eight on the back of sales.
All this meant "Kiss" by The Art of Noise feat. Tom Jones fell one spot to number nine and "If I Could" by 1927 stumbled three places to complete the top ten at number ten.
Gains
So I already mentioned "She Drives Me Crazy" by Fine Young Cannibals leaping into the top ten but the news is still pretty good outside of the top ten with "End of The Line" by The Traveling Wildburys leaping twenty places to 16!
"You'll Never Know" by by 1927 jumped eight places to break into the top twenty at 19 however it unfortunately brought the awful "Where Did I Go Wrong" by UB40 up eleven to 20...geezus.
"Armaggeddon It" by Def Leppard climbed from 41 to 34 somehow.
Re-Entries
Two 1988 hits returned with "Don't Worry, Be Happy" by Bobby McFerrin back at 41 and "Groovy Kind of Love" by Phil Collins in at 47
Losers
So let's do what we normally and begin at the bottom of the chart because "Nobody's Perfect" by Mike + The Mechanics slipped fifteen places to 50 this week...thank goodness...more on Mike + The Mechanics in the new entries.
"Don't Walk Away" by Toni Childs slipped ten to 43 while "Early in the Morning" by Robert Palmer slipped nine places to 35.
Poison's "Every Rose Has It's Thorn" slipped eight to 32 while "Don't Need Love" by Johnny Diesel and The Injectors fell seven to 30.
Unfortunately "Orange Crush" by R.E.M lost all of its momentum to tumble from 15 to 29 this week...ouch. "Put a Little Love in Your Heart" by Annie Lennox and Al Green slipped eleven to 28 while "I Want Yiur Love" by Tranvision Vamp fell from 18 to 25.
Finally down five to 14 is "Handle with Care" by The Traveling Wilburys.
New Entries
Five new entries this week, let's begin with...
49. "The Music Goes Round My Head" by The Saints
We're starting this week with a cover of The Easybeats 1967 song "The Music Goes Round My Head", a song written by legendary song writers Harry Vanda and George Young.
Now it's worth pointing out the original probably isn't the best Easybeats song in terms of the production but you can tell that lyrically the song is a catchy one so what The Saints do to improve on it? Well yeah it's definitely a nice upfate on the song opting for somewhat cleaner rock instrumentals over the bubblegum pop sound the Easybeats used. It's still as catchy as hell and worth checking out if you are interested.
45. "The Living Years" by Mike + The Mechanics
Brand new single from Mike + The Mechanics and I got to be honsst given how much I dislike "Nobody's Perfect", I was dreading this one...only to discover this one is excellent? Yeah, I am not kidding here, the production is on point and the choral vocals that back up or more effectively sing the chorus are incredibly powerful especially when you realize that the song is written from the perspective of a son who hasn't had the best relationship with his father and then realizes that he has a stronger connection to his dad than he ever realized only that the moment of realization has come too late, his father has died and all that stuff the son wanted to say to his father, he can't and now regrets not saying what he needed to when his father was alive, it's a sad song with one hell of a powerful message, nice way to get back on track for Mike + The Mechanics after a bad previous single.
44. "Tell That Girl to Shut Up" by Tranvsion Vamp
New single from Transvision Vamp following up the success of "I Want Your Love" and "Baby, I Don't Care" and turns out this song is a cover of Holly and The Italians 1979 original so does the Transvision Vamp improve on the Holly and the Italians version?
In this case, no...on the original, the guitars are angrier and Holly is delivering the lyrics with a little bite and some intensity but on the Transvision Vamp version, it's just flat, there's no anger or frustration there in wanting this girl to just shut up, there's about as much intensity in this as when my sister wants to break wind..yeah, I am skipping this...time to move on.
40. "What I Am" by Edie Brickell & New Bohemians
Alright, let's see if we can get some quality here, in this case this song comes from Texan alternative rock jam band group Edie Brickell with this song coming from the group's debut album "Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars" and unfortunately, this song is one of those that's trying to say a lot without really conveying much at all and really doesn't resonate with me at all not helped by Edie Brickell's vocal delivery which really does get annoying at points, sure the pruduction is good with the guitars and keyboard sounding nice but man alive I just don't care for this at all. Next.
23. "Belfast Child" by Simple Minds.
We're ending this week's reviews of the new entries on a sombre note courtesy of this new single from Simple Minds which is taken from the EP "Ballad of the Streets" with this song in particular inspired by a traditional Irish folk song called "She Moved Through the Fair" which Simple Minds frontman Jim Kerr heard while watching a memorial service for the 12 people sadly killed after an IRA bombing in Enniskillen during a Remembrance Day service and the images that were shown during that service made Kerr feel ill before in the second part of the song, he tries to connect and relate with the people of Northern Ireland, he doesn't have any answers to the horrible scenes bu like them is asking questions, it's an incredibly haunting song and when the guitars come in...it makes it a moving and really touching song.
And yeah, of course "Belfast Child" is getting best of the week but I'm making it a tie because "The Living Years" by Mike + The Mechanics is also excellent. Two very emotional songs in different ways
As for the worst, yeah, it's going to "Tell That Girl to Shut Up" by Tranvision Vamp because that really was not good at all.
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